JOURNAL ARTICLE

Thomas H. Ford, Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air: Atmospheric Romanticism in a Time of Climate Change.

  • Published In: Romanticism, 2023, v. 29, n. 1. P. 96 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Boyson, Rowan Rose 3 of 3

Abstract

And, as Ford has throughout shown, this possibility of atmosphere as metaphoric, yet still insistently and problematically material, emerged around 1800: Ford even nominates a "Romanthropocene" (204). And as Wordsworth has often been a synecdoche for Romanticism, so too for Ford atmosphere and Wordsworth's lyric poetry have a privileged relation, 'capable even of communicating the otherwise indescribably unique feeling of a delimited historical moment to other worlds and other times' (3). Air - and the associated phenomena of spirit, breath, wind, and atmosphere - have left deep symbolic traces in all etymologies; and yet for a long time the air was frequently "forgotten", as Luce Irigaray memorably titled her book on Heidegger. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Romanticism. 2023/04, Vol. 29, Issue 1, p96
  • Document Type:Interview
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:1354-991X
  • DOI:10.3366/rom.2023.0585
  • Accession Number:162852539
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